How Emma Stone got her stage name
That's right 鈥� Emma isn't her real name!
That's right 鈥� Emma isn't her real name!
Did you know that 'Emma' is not actually Emma Stone's real name?
Crazy, right?
Turns out when the Academy Award winner 鈥� whose real name Emily Stone 鈥� was 16, she was told by the Screen Actors Guild that she couldn't use her own name if she was going to be an actress.
"Well, I was 16 when I found out at SAG I couldn't have my own name," Emma .
"So to ask a 16-year-old to pick a new name is really an interesting process, because I was like, 'I'm going to be Riley. My name is going to be Riley Stone.'
"And so my name was Riley Stone for about six months and I did a guest spot on Malcolm In The Middle and one day they were like, 'Riley, Riley,' and I had no idea who they were talking to and they were like, 'Hey, hey come on we need you on set.' And I was like, 'Oh I'm not Riley, I can't be Riley.'"
Here she is in Malcolm In The Middle...
She then tried out another option鈥�
"I had the option of Emily J. Stone and it's kind of like Michael J. Fox, and I love Michael J. Fox, but I don't think I could pull off the J," she said.
"So then I changed it to Emma because you know it's closer to Emily, but most people call me 'M,' that know me well."
Not bad a bad system, M. Not bad at all.